IBEW partner contractors are able to supply construction and utility projects with outside linemen and apprentices who have been well-educated through ALBAT, so project owners receive world-class maintenance and installation services every time – and their jobs are completed on time and on budget.

The labor-management cooperation between the IBEW and its partner NECA contractors, which administers the ALBAT program, is strengthened through the IBEW Code of Excellence, further providing construction users – public and private owners – with a union workforce on which they can rely.

Advantages for CONTRACTORS

The IBEW provides significant, bottom-line advantages that save contractors money – such as having access to the region’s top ALBAT-educated linemen and apprentices.

IBEW partner NECA contractors have access to a large pool of highly trained Journeyman Linemen – because the IBEW continuously recruits and trains quality workers through ALBAT, which provides them with nationally recognized apprenticeship training and journeyman upgrade programs in a state-of the art training facility.

Advantages for UNION MEMBERS

In addition to providing training through ALBAT, the IBEW negotiates for its members so they have real, quality-of-life advantages, such as better wages and family healthcare & retirement benefits.

Through ALBAT, IBEW journeymen and apprentices are provided with the training they need to be part of the very best outside linemen workforce available – so they can receive the advantages they deserve as members of one of the most advanced and modern employee associations in the world, the I.B.E.W.